June 18, 2014

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Dr. George Beaton On The Future Of Law
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Judge Grants Bankruptcy Request to Bankruptcy Firm's Creditors
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Rejecting Jewel v. Boxer, The District Court's Heller Decision Is A Potential Knock-Out Punch Against Unfinished Business Claims By Insolvent Law Firms
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Beyond Biglaw: ‘Profits Per Me’
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10 Essential Tips for Summer Associates
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Associates: You're Doing It All Wrong Pulling (Serial) All-Nighters
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Solos: Think/Act Like Entrepreneurs, Not Lawyers (Part 3) --- (Part 4)
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Partners Going In-House Not Always Big Payday for Firms
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Staid Law Firms Can Reframe Their Value and Meaning, e.g. like mechanical Swiss watch industry
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Task Force Calls For Legal Education Reforms
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Legal Educators Plot the Future of Real-World Learning
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The ‘Best Value’ Law Schools Of 2014
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Which World Cup Team Is Your Law School?
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How In-house Lawyers Can 'Destressify' Going to Court
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Two Prominent Professors Plunge Into Politics
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ATL vs. Law Dean vs. Common Sense
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Law School Kills Brain Cells
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Attorney apologizes to bankruptcy court for potentially fake document in DECA case
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Fish & Richardson to make Minneapolis its administrative hub
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The Attorneys’ Psychologist
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Blonde Bombshell Says: ‘My B---- Are More Important Than The Law’
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Law Clerks Try To Construct Most Toolish Apartment On The Block
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These 10 Words Make People Question Your Authority
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Proof That You Should Always Tailor Your Clothes
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5 Secrets To Being A Great Communicator
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10 Simple Hacks For Packing A Suitcase
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How A Man — Once Bankrupt And In Jail — Used Facebook To Become A Millionaire
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Man kills wife, children, himself in Father's Day rampage
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Alibi exonerates ex-lawyer accused of setting his girlfriend on fire
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Are federal prosecutors reading inmates’ emails to their attorneys? Memo suggests answer may be yes
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Cowgirl juggles rodeo, law school
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Jury Gentrification: The Latest Way Hipsters Are Ruining Brooklyn?
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Saudi Arabia: 191 sorcery cases filed since November - Defendant sentenced to death for "casting magic spell"
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Say What?!
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Judges:

Prosecutor asks circuit judge to hold district judge in contempt over secret case dismissals
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Judges with daughters more likely to rule in feminist direction
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Bullet went through federal judge’s chambers into jury room, prompting security review
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Wall Street:

Futures slightly higher on Fed day
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Markets Are Quiet, As The World Waits For Yellen
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Stocks close higher for third straight session
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Study asserts startling numbers of insider trading rogues
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Layoffs:

After mass layoffs, foreclosure law firm faces eviction
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:

TelexFree boss, charged in pyramid scheme, allowed to leave jail
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Insurers claim Ponzi-duped hedge fund misled when obtaining coverage
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Former Goldman Director Gupta Reports to Federal Prison
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Did one ponzi scheme lead to another?
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Madoff Accountant Expected To Plead Guilty
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Judge: No Priority Payment For Ponzi Schemer's Legal Fees
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Pensions:

Pensions: Not Ponzis, but pyramids
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Autos:

GM to Start Compensation Program August 1
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Evidence of GM Ignition Defect Lay Hidden in Plain Sight
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Currency:

Mt. Gox U.S. Bankruptcy Approved to Help Bitcoin Hunt
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Economy:

Consumer Prices Rising as U.S. Housing Stabilizes --- Key Inflation Measures Show Increase, Year-over-year still mostly below the Fed Target in May
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The Fed disagrees on what to do next–and it hasn’t even gotten to interest rates yet
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The Economy, The Markets, And The Fed: Here's What's Really Going On
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Survey: Consumers Use Tax Refunds to Pay Down Debt
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CEOs See More Hiring But Less Capital Investment
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Social Security Cash Crunch is Near --- Social Security closes offices as baby boomers age
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Is Janet Yellen About To Go 'Carney'?
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Crude Oil Heading to $150 --- Middle East Instability and Ol Prices
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LA area Port Traffic: Imports increasing
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Missing Mortgage Details: At the End of the Day These Mortgages Survived
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SunTrust Settles With Justice Dept. Over Mortgages; Talks Continue for Citigroup and Bank of America
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May housing starts , permits slip more than 6%
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Port prepared to increase bid on Channelside
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Merrill Lynch Must Face $1 Billion Mortgage Suit, Court Says
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Many Displaced by Superstorm Sandy Still Wait for Housing Help
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Municipalities:

Creditors: Bankruptcy judge's bus tour of Detroit could be dangerous
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State official approves deal to protect art in Detroit bankruptcy
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Detroit Land Bank Authority seizes 1000s of homes, lots
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Detroit bankruptcy creditors want secret court order disclosed
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Who Bears the Cost? The Necessity of Taxpayer Participation in Chapter 9
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Municipal Bankruptcy : When Doing Less is Doing Best
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Pension deniers
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Guadalupe flirting with bankruptcy
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Chicago: City Hall's financial time bomb
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Celebs:

RHONY's Sonja Morgan Has Crazier Problems Than We Ever Thought
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Sonja Morgan Makes How Much From The Real Housewives of New York City?
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Television:

Jim Crane remains hopeful of getting Astros TV deal moving
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Attorneys for CSN Houston say bankrupt network owes them $850000
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Electricity:

Bankrupt Energy Future unit sued over proposed refinancing
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EFIH 2nd-lien noteholders file suit seeking make-whole claim payment
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Texas lets bankrupt energy company set aside funds
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Internet:

Data canter services firm files for bankruptcy, lists debts in excess of $50 million
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Healthcare:

Texas Senior Living Company Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Mercy eliminates 220 jobs in 7 states
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Federal insurance exchange subsidies cut premiums by average of 76%
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Personal Finance:

The 9 Best States For Retirement
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Retailing:

RadioShack's Bondholders Are Holding It Hostage
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Politics:

Congress So Hated No One Cares Who Wins
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Chemicals:

Vultures Circle Momentive Seeking $150 Million
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Workouts:

The Voting Prohibition in Bond Workouts
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Entertainment:

Entertainment Hedge Fund Files For Bankruptcy As It Sues Fortress --- Movie-Investing Hedge Fund Declares Bankruptcy
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(4 new opinions today - DBN)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (18 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (5 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

 

Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Avoidance Actions:

Kodak Trustee Sues Altek Corp. to Recover $49.2 Million
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Bankruptcy Reform:

Rich States, Poor States: The Disparate Impact of BAPCPA on High- and Low-Median Income State Residents
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Secured Debt:

An L of a Mess: Perfecting Against LLP’s
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Plan Confirmation:

No Confirmation Without Representation: New Test Is Proposed for Approval of a Debtor’s Proposed Slate of Post-Confirmation Officers and Directors
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Jurisdiction:

Supreme Court Ruling in Bellingham Offers Comfort but Little Clarity
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IP:

Eighth Circuit Holds that Trademark License Granted As Part of Sale Agreement is Not Executory
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Sovereigns:

Ruling on Argentina's Debt May Give Creditors More Power
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SCOTUS makes it messy for Argentina — Kirchner: We won't default
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US Court ruling ‘undermines the most successful sovereign debt restructuring process’
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Options fizzle down to three
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Argentina Heads For Another Sovereign Default
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Argentine Officials Head to Congress to Discuss Debt Plan
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Argentina’s Fernández vs the holdouts: her television address in full
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Argentina's Rating Cut to CCC- by S&P on Supreme Court Decision
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S&P and Argentina in six months: “default or distressed debt exchange” --- Argentina plans to reopen debt swap program
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After Supreme Court loss, 'vulture funds' circling Argentina's billions
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Paul Singer: Argentina's nemesis is a tenacious tactician
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The New Default For Argentina Won't be As Bad As The Last Default
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Argentina's credit default swaps continue to rise
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UK:

A third of pre-packs doomed to failure if ex-directors involved
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Jobs under threat as fashion retailer Lakeland goes into administration
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Archbishop of Canterbury warns banks are still 'too big to fail'
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PIIGS:

Former Anglo executive McAteer charged with alleged conspiracy to mislead bank’s investors with €7.2bn transfer
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ie: Insolvency proposal rejection by bank 'irrational'
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Spain eyes extending debt rules to companies in liquidation
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Italy asks ArcelorMittal to invest in troubled steel plant
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MENA:

Iraq's Biggest Oil Refinery Shut Down As Insurgents Threaten Baghdad --- Iraq Not Falling Apart - Yet --- Iraq's Biggest Refinery Shut, Evacuated --- Sunni Militants Control '75 %' Of Iraq's Largest Oil Refinery --- Why ISIS Militants Won't Stop With Iraq --- Obama reportedly rules out Iraq airstrikes
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China:

China Forestry attempts debt restructure
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Ukraine:

Ukraine Prime Minister: Someone Detonated A Bomb On Our Main Gas Pipeline

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